1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457373703321

Autore

Brantlinger Patrick <1941->

Titolo

Taming cannibals [[electronic resource] ] : race and the Victorians / / Patrick Brantlinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8014-6264-9

0-8014-6263-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

305.800941

Soggetti

Cannibalism in literature

Cannibalism - History - 19th century

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Race in literature

Racism in literature

Electronic books.

Great Britain Race relations History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Race and the Victorians -- Part I. Two Island Stories -- 1. Missionaries and Cannibals in Nineteenth-Century Fiji -- 2. King Billy's Bones: The Last Tasmanians -- Part II. Racial Alternatives -- 3. Going Native in Nineteenth-Century History and Literature -- 4. "God Works by Races": Benjamin Disraeli's Caucasian Arabian Hebrew Tent -- Part III. The 1860's: The Decade after Darwin's Origin -- 5. Race and Class in the 1860's -- 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Irish -- Part IV. Ancient and Future Races -- 7. Mummy Love: H. Rider Haggard and Racial Archaeology -- 8. "Shadows of the Coming Race" -- Epilogue: Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" and Its Afterlives -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of



the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior-an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species. Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts-including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00282625

Autore

Kenkre, Vasudev Mangesh

Titolo

Memory Functions, Projection Operators, and the Defect Technique : Some Tools of the Trade for the Condensed Matter Physicist / V. M. (Nitant) Kenkre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2021

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

35Q49 - Transport equations [MSC 2020]

35Q55 - NLS equations (nonlinear Schroedinger equations) [MSC 2020]

35Q62 - PDEs in connection with statistics [MSC 2020]

35Q82 - PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics [MSC 2020]

35Q92 - PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences [MSC 2020]

82-XX - Statistical mechanics, structure of matter [MSC 2020]

82Cxx - Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) [MSC 2020]

82Dxx - Applications of statistical mechanics to specific types of physical systems [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145487403321

Titolo

Annual review of nuclear and particle science

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, CA, : Annual Reviews

ISSN

1545-4134

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

539.7

Soggetti

Nuclear physics

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Nuclear chemistry

Nuclear energy

Nuclear Energy

Nuclear Physics

Radiochemistry

Chimie nucléaire

Énergie nucléaire

Physique nucléaire

Particules (Physique nucléaire)

nuclear power

nuclear physics

Kernphysik

Zeitschrift

Elementarteilchenphysik

Kosmologie

Kernenergie

PARTÍCULAS (FÍSICA NUCLEAR)

Periodical

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed